Prompto Argentum (プロンプト・アージェンタム) , one of the main character in Final Fantasy XV, the game released by SQUARE ENIX, who’s the best friend of the protagonist Noctis.

Childhood

Prompto was an unconfident and shy person when he was small since he was fat and he knew that he was came from the Empire. Depended on his inferiority, he did not have any friend in his childhood, until he met Noctis.

When Prompto was in primary school, he had saved a puppy, and finally found out that puppy was Princess Lunafreya’ s pet. Lunafreya grew up with Noctis, and when she found out that Prompto was in the same school as Noctis did, she asked Prompto to become friend of the prince.

Prompto was very excited but also extremely nervous, so when he wanted to say hi to the prince, he fell down. Noctis ran toward him and tried to grab him up from the ground. However, since Prompto was so heavy, so it took Noctis a lot of efforts, and he sad ” you are so heavy” while Prompto stood up. Prompto got hurt of that line, so he decided to lose weight. He started to do exercises and eating healthy food, and since he wanted to become a better person, he started to talk to his classmates and getting advice from them.

Before Prompto got leaner, he never talked to Noctis again since he thought he was not good enough to become friend of the prince. However, Noctis always knew that Prompto was working hard for him, and he was waiting to make friend with Prompto.

Until both of Noctis and Prompto entered high school, Prompto finally became lean and handsome. So at the first day of school, he found Noctis, and said that even thought this was the first time they met(Prompto thought that Noctis might not recognized him, and also, this is a new person as ‘a better Prompto’), he wanted to make friend with him. Noctis was a little bit surprised, and then said that this is not the first time I met you, I knew you for a long time. After that, Noctis and Prompto became best friends for the rest of their lives.

Story

Prompto is a clone produced for military warfare by the Niflheim Empire, that’s the main reason why he is a inferior person. And all he wants is to have friends, even in some points friends are more important than his only life, this is his way to feel alive. He grew up in Lusic, and becomes part of the Kingsglaive after graduated from high school. When he was 20 years old, he went on the journey with Noctis, Gladiolus and Ignis, as the best friend of the prince, and also his protector.

During the journey, Prompto helped a lot, both in their daily life and during the battles. He loved photography since his young age, so he also took a lot of picture of his friends and scenery on their trip.

After Noctis had entered the crystal, and the world turned into the endless nighttime, Prompto kept protecting the Kingdom with other Kingsglaive’ s members while waiting for Noctis’ coming back.

In the end of the game, Noctis came back to fight the decisive battle with Ardyn, and Prompto saw Noctis off with Gladiolus and Ignis. Before Noctis enter the Citadel, he asked Prompto for a photo, that he wanted to take it with him when he sacrificed his life. Prompto gave a photo to him(player can choose which photo you will give), promised that he will always stand by Noctis’ s side, and after Noctis gone, he will take care of the rest with Gladiolus and Ignis.

Epilogue

Prompto is a very important character in Final Fantasy XV, as the best friend of the protagonist Noctis, and also as the great comrade in arms and facilitator. His firmness, kindness, and the active personality made the game more vivid and memorable. All of these made Prompto an indispensable existence.

References

• https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Prompto_Argentum
• https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ep95264?from=search&seid=11557190517507140328
• https://www.bilibili.com/video/av25693314?p=20
• https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%9C%80%E7%BB%88%E5%B9%BB%E6%83%B315%EF%BC%9A%E7%8E%8B%E8%80%85%E4%B9%8B%E5%89%91/19835686?fr=aladdin
• https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%9C%80%E7%BB%88%E5%B9%BB%E6%83%B3XV?fromtitle=%E6%9C%80%E7%BB%88%E5%B9%BB%E6%83%B315&fromid=2220974

Shanghai Pinghe School is a bilingual school located in Shanghai Pudong, including primary school, junior middle school, and high school. And in this blog, I will mainly introduce you the high school department.

As you can see in the picture above, this is the gate for high school students and teachers. It’s on Mingyue Road, and our street number is 1029. The security guards at this gate are very nice since they don’t really prevent students who live on campus to get their take-out food after school. Also, all of students’ and teachers’ express deliveries will be put in the room behind the guard room, so don’t be worried about sending deliveries to school.

Now we officially entered the campus. Right below the welcome sign, there is a map of the whole campus, and the area in the blue box is where most of the time high school students stay, which is basically the region around Building 4.

You can see Building 4 right after you go through the gate, and it is the second biggest building of the whole campus. Building 4 is the building for high school, and both the IB department and part of the OSSD department is here.

For high school, the school aspires a high quality education, so in building 4, the infrastructures are all well designed with high-tech, students can found all most all the things they want to complete their course work or personal requirements during the study process. Here is a building directory of building 4, it is on the left hand side wall after entering the building.

On the ground floor, there is the student’s cafeteria. The lunch will be started at 11 a.m. and ended at 12.30 p.m. However at 11.45 a.m the number of students in the line will peak, so better to have lunch before that time if can.

Go down the stairs near the cafeteria, there’s the gym. It has standard basketball court and facilities, with a retractable stand. Students will take their PE class here, and sometimes there will be basketball competitions been held. And every Monday, all students need to be in the gym to have flag raising ceremony. We also use the gym to hold big parties and events like Jumbo Party and Halloween Party.

Near the entry of the gym, there are two vending machines. These machines had just been putted here for two years, since we don not have convenience store in campus, so these machines make up for the shortcoming, so students can buy snacks and drinks here.

Go up to the second floor, you can find the library and the printing room. There are always a lot of students want to study individually and quietly, so they will go to the library. There are a lot of seats provided for students, and you can find a plug near every seats. The printing room is not big, but there are 2 big printing machines and 3 small ones, and you can also find some staplers and paper cutters there.

On the fourth floor, right after you get out of the stair well, you can see a free hug sign, which is held by the grade 11 students. It is really cute 🙂

There are also some tables in the hallway, so students can have a small space to do their works. There are also some posters of different clubs and artworks from students.

Now lets go down stairs again. At the back of the building, there is parking shed for bicycles and electromobiles. Both students and teachers will park their car here.

Go through the parking shed, you will arrive at building 3. Building 3 was used to be the high school building years ago, and now it is the building for grade 7 to 9 students. The chemistry lab and physics lab is there, and some of the classes in Grade 10 and 11 will be taken there.

Another high school building is building 5, which is the newest building in the campus. This is the building only for the OSSD grade 10 to 11 classes and teachers. Since OSSD department is the Canadian high school, so they had been separated from the IB department. The grade 12 OSSD students are still having classes in building 4, but since next session, all OSSD grades will be in building 5.

By the entry of building 5, there is our own café——Pinghe Coffee. It was opened at the same time was building 5 started to be used. Students and teachers can buy coffee from the window or take a seat inside of the café, and if you want to sit in an open space, you can go to the terrace on the second floor.

That’s the end of the tour. Thanks for watching.

Welcome to visit Pinghe School.

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Cantonese food are basically the foods from Guangdong Province, South of China. It is one of the four traditional Chinese cuisines and one of the eight major cuisines. It originated from the central China, and after more than two thousand years of development, it has matured in the late Qing Dynasty.

Cooking methods

There are 21 kinds of cooking methods, especially steamed, fried, simmered, stewed, buckled, etc.. Pay attention to the heat, and the dishes should also focus on their color, fragrance, taste, and shape. The taste is clear, fresh, tender and cool, and it varies with the seasons. The taste will be fresh in Summer and Autumn, and grumous in winter and spring, and there are six flavors, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty, fresh. The selection of materials is wide and varied, and the flavor emphasizes the quality and taste.

The Soft-Boiled Chicken

Ingredients needed:

Qingyuan white cut chicken
Ingredients: 1 Qingyuan Chicken, 500g green onion, 1 ginger
Seasoning: 1 tablespoon of raw soy sauce, 3 tablespoons of yellow rice wine, 2-3 teaspoons of salt, 1 teaspoon of sugar

Cooking Steps

1. Cover the bottom of the pot with shallots and place some ginger slices.
2. Clean up the chicken, put a little salt and rice wine on the surface of the chicken, and put some ginger slices on the chicken.
3. Heat in medium high heat for about 2 minutes. When there is smoke coming out, turn to low heat, cover the lid, put some ice on the lid, and simmer for about 25 minutes.
4. After turning off the fire, take out the chicken and soak it in ice water for 10 minutes; take out the chicken, dry the water and cut the chicken into pieces. Cut some shallots and ginger into pieces, add some salt, soy sauce and sugar, mix well, and dip in the sauce when eating.

Dry fry rice noodles with beef

Ingredients: beef (150g), river noodles (500g)
Seasoning: mung bean sprout (250g), leek, chive, onion, salt, soy sauce, sugar, peanut oil

Cooking Steps

1. Slice the beef, mix well with water, let it eat water, add raw soy sauce and sugar, and then marinate with peanut oil for at least half an hour.
2. Wash mung bean sprouts, leek, onion and chive.
3. Cut chives, chives and onions into segments.
4. Heat up the oil in the pot, drain the oil from the beef, and drain the oil as soon as it changes color.
5. Filter the beef.
6. Pour the oil in the pot clean, leave nothing in it. Heat the pot, and put the mung bean sprouts, rice noodles and onion into the pot.
7. Mix the mung bean sprouts with rice noodles, stir fry until the mung bean sprouts are slightly soft.
8. Remove the pot from the heat and add beef, leek and scallion.
9. Add some salt, soy sauce and mix well.
10. After the flavor is adjusted, put the pot on the tempering plate and stir fry it quickly.

Sampan Congee

raw material:
100g japonica rice, 100g squid (fresh), 300g pork tripe
accessories:
25g scallops, 50g pork skin, 50g indica rice flour (rice noodle), 50g peanut kernel , 1 oil stick.
Seasoning:
2 g salt, 1 g monosodium glutamate, 3 G shallot, 3 G ginger, 5 g soy sauce, 5 g lard (refining), 3 G alkali

Cooking Steps

1. Remove the ribs from the scallops, soak them in warm water and scatter them
2. Soak the squid in alkaline water, cut it into filaments and scald it in boiling water
3. Soak the pigskin in cold water, rinse it, cut it into strips, put it into a boiling pot and boil it
4. Clean pork tripe
5. Roast duck cut into small pieces
6. Remove the coat from the peanut kernel, roll it in boiling salt water, and remove it to dry
7. Put into a slow boiling oil pan, fry until golden yellow, remove and drain the oil
8. Fried rice flour in boiling
9. Wash the rice and soak it in cold water for half an hour, then drain it;
10. Take the pot and add some cold water, and heat it with high fire first;
11. Add in the rice, scallop and pork tripe, and cook them over low heat until they are congee, then season them with salt and monosodium glutamate;
12. Put the other ingredients into a large bowl, pour into the porridge, then add lard, soy sauce, ginger (shredded) and mix well.